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With the national spotlight on Waller County after the suicide of Sandra Bland and questions surrounding her treatment at the jail, Sheriff R. Glenn Smith said Friday his department has nothing to hide - ...

On a cold January morning, Daniel Zambrano drove a company van with six co-workers from an isolated fracking site along Texas 72 in the Eagle Ford Shale, blasting the heat as he headed for a nearby hotel. ...

Alone in the dark master bedroom, John Woodruff heard the click of the tumbler in the front door lock, and the quiet swoosh of the door opening. Not again, he thought, glancing at his wife's side of the ...

In the last three years, Texan federal agents have contributed to some of the largest forfeiture cases in American law enforcement history - seizing Caribbean bank accounts, stud racehorses and luxury ...

MOUNT RAINIER, Wash. - She was broken, bloodied, out of her mind with fear and dangling from a rope face-down in a seemingly bottomless crevasse on the side of a mountain. And she had no idea she was all ...

Hundreds - if not thousands - of family-owned plants, farmers' cooperatives and corporate fertilizer businesses in rural America overlook or disregard laws meant to protect the public from potentially ...

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The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is as busy in the Houston region as it is anywhere in the United States. It is home to more federally licensed gun dealers than any other area in the ...

There are now more than 20,600 known gang members in the Houston region, according to a new law-enforcement report, which warns that they pose an "extremely high" threat in terms of committing crimes in ...

It would seem obvious that a firearms dealer specially licensed by the federal government to sell machine guns would know how to shoot, but burglars probably didn't expect to face his wrath at 1:45 in the ...

First responders scrambled Sunday to save the life of a 3-year-old boy who apparently shot himself with his grandfather's handgun in Spring.
The boy was rushed by Life Flight helicopter to Memorial ...

A Houston man was found beaten to death Sunday morning in a home in northwest Houston, according to the Harris County Sheriff's Office.
Deputy Thomas Gilliland, a spokesman for the sheriff's office, ...

The Texas Secretary of State has agreed to study why thousands of Texans have complained over the past year and a half that they had problems registering to vote despite a federal law that requires all ...

DuPont announced Tuesday that it has replaced its plant manager in La Porte, where four people died in a massive leak of toxic gases from a pesticide unit on Nov. 15, 2014. The company is bringing in James ...

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A divided Supreme Court on Monday sided with Texas and more than 20 other states that fought the Obama administration's efforts to crack down on mercury and other air pollutants from power plants. Industry leaders joined the states in challenging the Environmental Protection Agency's more than ...

Most people bring in Bibles - old family Bibles rescued from the attic or ones tattered by years of study, with highlighted passages and penciled-in notes. Once, a homeless man handed over crumpled one- and five-dollar bills and some torn-out pages of Scripture. Could it be made into a book? It ...

Kristina Haapanen took a feather-light step onto the bathroom scale serving as the official weigh-in device for the Texas Wife Carrying Championship, an event that not only actually exists but is in its fourth year at a Fort Bend County church.
The display flickered: 108.0.
A wisp of an ...

Thinking of plotting your route home tonight through Tropical Storm Bill? Use the Houston Chronicle's map of flooded roadways.
We'll be updating the map throughout the day and into the night as Bill makes its way through the city.
See a flooded area we missed? Tell us all about it ...

The U.S. Occupational Health and Safety Administration announced Thursday that it has placed chemical giant DuPont in a program reserved for "severe violators" because of problems uncovered in inspections conducted after four workers were killed in a massive gas release at its La Porte plant ...

As she maneuvers a metal cart past the refrigerated cases of Food Town, Valanda Streets does quick mental calculations.
She adds up the price of pork chops and chicken parts, subtracts the amount from what she can afford to spend, and weighs the cost against what it will take to keep her ...

Marc Pilkington rides herd over fellow members of the Heart of Texas chapter of the Bandidos Motorcycle Club. He makes sure rules are obeyed, and he is the front line of defense should anyone threaten his brothers. Think of him as a mix of drill sergeant and junk-yard dog. Pilkington also is ...